HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bertolt Brecht, Ninety-Five Theses, Hans Ulrich Von Schaffgotsch
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Transition: from troy to the thirty years" war. Representing history: prof. john h. smith, where have we been and where are we going, troy (iliad) to france/germany (weil) to u. k. (oswald, thirty years" war (germany; central europe) to germany (grimmelshausen and brecht) to u. s. (nyc; walter) The big picture : why are we reading this bizarre book by grimmelshausen, the period from ca. You"ll see that in macchiavelli as well: a new kind of non-denominational christian piety, a form of natural religion (after the fighting between catholics and protestants), a new political order, international relations organized around nation states. Concentrate on first and third points (new kind of individual and: history as story and representation. new political order), a basic distinction when considering how we tell the history/story of war. Res gestae: latin for the things that happened. From whose point of view: read representing history by prof. jane o. newman in hcc writer"s.
